An important addition to the discourse covering the role of Irish society during the First World War.

Journal of British Studies

This substantive book contributes to a deeper understanding of Irish involvement in the Great War. Summing Up: Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty.

CHOICE

This is a bold and indeed audacious intervention in the historiography of Irish Catholic involvement in British and Allied action during the Great War. Niamh Gallagher's sophisticated interpretation of the Home Front in towns across Ireland enables us to appreciate the ways in which individuals, families, businesses, civic and political leaders, and their supporters, understood Allied war aims and the reasons for contributing and remembering. Richly detailed and illustrated throughout, this is an unusually substantial contribution to the social and political history of Ireland and Irish communities abroad.

Royal Historical Society, 2020 Whitfield Prize winner

Rich in social texture and with fascinating new case studies of Irish participation in the conflict, "Ireland and the Great War" has the makings of a major rethinking of Ireland's twentieth century … A meticulously presented work of original scholarship, "Ireland and the Great War: A Social and Political History" is an extraordinary and unreservedly recommended contribution.

Midwest Book Review